Need some new wheels? You can buy a new 2026 Jaecoo J5 compact SUV for the equivalent of just $18,400, out the door, all fees and taxes included and with a list of features that…

President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff policy collides smack into economic reality somewhere in the middle of the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit to Windsor, Canada’s southernmost major city.  That 1.4-mile suspension bridge handles more than a…

President Trump last week conceded that his border taxes are economically damaging by softening the blow for auto makers. Or as he put it in a Michigan speech, believe it or not: “We gave them…

DETROIT (AP) — Price increases for cars and trucks in the United States, which helped fuel inflation for nearly three years, are slowing and in some cases falling, helping cool overall inflation and giving frustrated…

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on Thursday sharply criticized the process leading up to the deployment of 5G wireless technology around airports last month, repeatedly questioning how the Federal Aviation Administration and Federal Communications Commission had such…

The U.S. economy was weaker than expected in the third quarter, which is bad news for any American whose livelihood depends on strong economic growth and especially disappointing for the White House, which is struggling…

DETROIT (AP) — The world’s major automakers have made something abundantly clear: They believe electric vehicles will dominate their industry in the years ahead.  Yet for that to happen, they’ll need to sell the idea…

Since Joe Biden’s election last month, U.S. car companies have been stepping up one by one to support the limits on tailpipe emissions he has pledged to impose. A new spirit of cooperation between the…

BEIJING (AP) — Automakers are reopening factories in China that were idled by anti-virus controls as they try to reverse a sales slump in their biggest market.  Local officials have orders from the ruling Communist…

DETROIT (AP) — If they can close our plant, they can close yours, too. That’s the message from workers at three shuttered General Motors factories that didn’t get new products under the tentative contract agreement…